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Saturday, July 30, 2016

OpenTTD 1.6.1 is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

Oracle Java 9 is available as an early access release (it should be released in March 2017) and its available for installation from webupd8team PPA repository. Note that you should only use Oracle Java 9 if you explicitly need it, because it may contain bugs and it might not include the latest security patches. Also, some Java options were removed in JDK9, so you may encounter issues with various Java apps.

The Java 9 release date is postponed to 2017 because of delays in Project Jigsaw

Now it’s official. It might come to some as no surprise due to the long history of delays in the project, but looks like the highly anticipated Project Jigsaw has been delayed. Again. The good news is that unlike last time with Java 8, it’s still on the roadmap for Java 9. The bad news is that we’ll have to wait to 2017. Originally targeting September 2016, the target date for general availability is now set to March 2017.

Java is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application
and is the global standard for developing and delivering mobile
applications, games, Web-based content, and enterprise software.
Currently there are no .deb packages available for Oracle Java 8

Java 8 Update 101 (8u101) Changelog

IANA Data 2016d

JDK 8u101 contains IANA time zone data version 2016d. For more information, refer to Timezone Data Versions in the JRE Software.

Certificate Changes

New DTrust certificates added to root CAsTwo new root certificates have been added:

Java is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application and is the global standard for developing and delivering mobile applications, games, Web-based content, and enterprise software. Currently there are no .deb packages available for Oracle Java 7

Java 7 Update 79 (7u79) Changelog

ANA Data 2015a

JDK 7u79 contains IANA time zone data version 2015a. For more information, refer to Timezone Data Versions in the JRE Software.

Bug Fix: Improve jar file handling. Starting with JDK 7u79 release, the jar tool no longer allows the leading slash "/" and ".." (dot-dot) path component in zip entry file name when creating new and/or extracting from zip and jar file. If needed, the new command line option "-P" should be used explicitly to preserve the dot-dot and/or absolute path component. See 8064601 (not public).

Friday, July 29, 2016

Thunderbird 45.2.0 is an open-source e-mail client and chat client developed by Mozilla. Among others, it has support for email addresses, newsgroup, news feed and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) Client, managing multiple accounts. Also, it has support for different themes and its power can be extended by plugins.

Fixed:

Invitations to events could not be printed.

Dragging and dropping of contacts from the contact list onto an addressbook while All Addressbooks is selected moved only one contact

Falsely reported not enough disk space during compacting

Links were not always detected properly in the message body (terminated early on "|", some long links not detected at all)

Wine 1.8.3 Stable comes with a number of new features,
improvements and bugfixes. A notable update to this release is the
addition of lots of NVidia cards to the GPU description table, updates
to the national language support files.

Wine 1.8.3 Update

wineconsole run fail on korean locale.

TeX2Word will not install

Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge

winhelp: Some images not shown in certain 16-bit Help files

Multiple 64-bit applications crash on startup (violation of the
Windows 64-bit ABI, stack pointer (RSP) must be 16-byte aligned when
making a call to Win64 API)

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board.

Arduino IDE 1.6.10 Changelog

[ide]

A lot of bugfixes to builder

Libraries can now define the property "includes" in the library.properties to tell the IDE which `#include <...>` lines should be added to the sketch when the "Include library" command is used.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

PhotoQT 1.4.1 is a simple, free and open-source image viewer that comes in very handy with its basic file management and image manipulation features. It allows you to rotate, flip and zoom images or delete, rename or move them. You can also check EXIF information and show images in a slide show.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

slowmoVideo is an OpenSource program that creates slow-motion videos from your footage. But it does not simply make your videos play at 0.01× speed. You can smoothly slow down and speed up your footage, optionally with motion blur.

How does slow motion work? slowmoVideo tries to find out where pixels move in the video (this information is called Optical Flow), and then uses this information to calculate the additional frames between the ones recorded by your camera.

Features

Videos in any format supported by ffmpeg can be loaded. Image sequences can also be loaded, so, if you did a timelapse with too few frames, slowmoVideo may help as well.

Monday, July 25, 2016

Audacious 3.7.2 Advanced Audio Player released is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins.

Audacious 3.7.2 changelog

Cuesheet support issue: ‘Album Title’ missing (replaced with current directory name), as well as Year and

DVDStyler 3.0 Authoring Tool released is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free.

Features

create and burn DVD video with interactive menus

design your own DVD menu or select one from the list of ready to use menu templates

create photo slideshow

add multiple subtitle and audio tracks

support of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formats

support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats

Saturday, July 23, 2016

MadEdit is a Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++&wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings(UTF8/16/32,Big5,GBK...) and WordCount.

wxMEdit 3.1 Changelog

added a new killer feature: word boundary with Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Lao/Khmer and Burmese characters etc.

XDM can download FLV videos from popular sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Video. After installing XDM, “Download This Video” button pops up whenever you are watching a video anywhere in the Internet. Just click on the button to start downloading clips. It can capture videos from YouTube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Google Video or any other website and schedule downloads.

XDM increases download speed up-to 500%. XDM can accelerate downloads by up to 5 times due to its intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology. The software resumes unfinished download from the place where they left off. XDM also comes with a smart scheduler and speed limiter. XDM also supports queued download to perform downloads one by one.

Friday, July 22, 2016

Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, with native versions available for Unix, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Haiku, Microsoft Windows, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems.

Important Changes

The text layout engine has been rewritten from scratch in preparation for support of complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and Hindi coming in Scribus 1.5.3 and later. We are more than grateful for the magnificent work that the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, led by Khaled Hosny, completed.

Within the context of the text layout system rewrite, some new text features introduced with the 1.5.0 release have been stabilized and improved.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

RemoteBox is a VirtualBox client. In essence, you can remotely administer (ie over the network) an installation of VirtualBox on a server, including its guests and interact with them as if they were running locally. VirtualBox is installed on 'the server' machine and RemoteBox runs on 'the client' machine. RemoteBox provides a complete GTK graphical interface with a look and feel very similar to that of VirtualBox's native GUI. If you're familiar with other virtualization software, such as VMWare ESX, then think of RemoteBox as the "poor man's" VI client.

youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

Here's is the list of all the supported sites, ordered alphabetically:

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The Nvidia 367.35 video driver comes as an upgrade over the previous update, Nvidia 367.27, announced exactly one month ago, which introduced support for Nvidia's recently released GeForce GTX 1080 and GTK 1070 graphics cards on Linux kernel-based operating systems.

However, this appears to be a small maintenance update bringing fixes for some annoyances reported by users since the previous release. At the same time, it also adds support for VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) Feature Set H to the Nvidia VDPAU driver on all supported platforms.

As usual, two editions of Linux Mint are available: one with the more modern Cinnamon desktop and one with the more traditional MATE desktop.

This release is a big one, being the first major new version of Linux Mint in more than two years, and a release that bumps the underlying code from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04. That means lots of polish and new features for Linux Mint users.

At the moment, you can only get Linux Mint 18 by installing it from scratch. The Linux Mint project is working on an easy upgrade path from Linux Mint 17.3, the previous release and final version of the Linux Mint 17 series. Linux Mint 17.3 users should get a notification in Linux Mint’s Update Manager when it’s ready.

Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. Skype’s text,
voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people
that matter to you, wherever they are.

With Skype, you can share a
story, celebrate a birthday, learn a language, hold a meeting, work
with colleagues – just about anything you need to do together every day.
You can use Skype on whatever works best for you - on your phone or
computer or a TV with Skype on it. It is free to start using Skype - to
speak, see and instant message other people on Skype for example. You
can even try out group video, with the latest version of Skype.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Simplenote recently released is a Light, clean, and open source note taking app. According to Simplenote blog page, Simplenote first started on iOS and has since expanded to include Android, Mac OS X, and now Windows and Linux. Simplenote app is built with React and runs on Electron.

Visual C++ 1.0.4 for Linux Development just released today, is the latest extension developed by Microsoft that lets you roll C++ code for Linux servers, desktops and devices. With this extension you can author C++ code for Linux servers, desktops and devices. You can manage your connections to these machines from within VS. VS will automatically copy and remote build your sources and can launch your application with the debugger. The project system supports targeting specific architectures, including ARM.

[stdlib] New commands -fade_files, -fade_video, -morph_files and -morph_video which compute a streamed temporal fading/morphing of a sequence of images (given as an input filename pattern, or a video file).

[stdlib] New command -is_videofilename that try to guess if a specified filename is a video file (guessing by its extension).

[stdlib] New command -x_grab_color displays a color grabber widget from an input image.

GIMP 2.8.18 was recently released to fix a vulnerability in the XCF loading code (CVE-2016-4994). With special XCF files, GIMP can be caused to crash, and possibly be made to execute arbitrary code provided by the attacker.

This release includes additional bug fixes since 2.8.16. An important change has happened to the initial startup experience on Microsoft Windows and OS X platforms - any “GIMP is not responding” errors encountered there should be gone.

GIMP 2.8.18 Changelog from GIMP 2.8.16

Core:

Initialize fontconfig cache in separate thread to keep GUI responsive on first startup

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Calendar indicator is simply an indicator that integrates the Google Calendar into the Unity desktop. Among others, it allows the users to easily add new calendar or events, synchronized with the Google Calendar

Google calendar indicator in the system tray, you can easily view and add events in your Google Calendar. If you don’t want to open Evolution or Thunderbird just to access the calendar, then this lightweight and speedy applet is for you. Here’s how to install Google Calendar indicator on Ubuntu 16.04 from PPA.

Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.

With Skype, you can share a story, celebrate a birthday, learn a language, hold a meeting, work with colleagues – just about anything you need to do together every day. You can use Skype on whatever works best for you - on your phone or computer or a TV with Skype on it. It is free to start using Skype - to speak, see and instant message other people on Skype for example. You can even try out group video, with the latest version of Skype.

Friday, July 15, 2016

Wireshark 2.0.4 recently released, is a free, open source packet analyzer, world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's
happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto
(and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational
institutions.

Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Samba 4.4.5 recently released, is an implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. It can function both as a domain controller or as a regular domain member.

This is a security release in order to address the following defect:

It's possible for an attacker to downgrade the required signing for an SMB2/3 client connection, by injecting the SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_GUEST or SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_NULL flags.

This means that the attacker can impersonate a server being connected to by Samba, and return malicious results.

The primary concern is with winbindd, as it uses DCERPC over SMB2 when talking to domain controllers as a member server, and trusted domains as a domain controller. These DCE/RPC connections were intended to protected by the combination of "client ipc signing" and "client ipc max protocol" in their effective default settings ("mandatory" and "SMB3_11").

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a
compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several
POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.
Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or
emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly,
eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and
allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your
desktop.

While the latest version available is Wine 1.8.x, you can also install
and test Wine 1.9.14(Dev), which is the under-development branch of Wine
and brings the below changes:

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Slackware is available for the IA-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a port to the ARM architecture. While Slackware is mostly free and open source software, it does not have a formal bug tracking facility or public code repository, with releases periodically announced by Volkerding. There is no formal membership procedure for developers and Volkerding is the primary contributor to releases.

Slackware 14.2 changelog

Runs the 4.4.14 version of the Linux kernel from ftp.kernel.org. The 4.4.x series is well-tested, offers good performance, and will be getting long term support from kernel.org. For people interested in running the latest Linux kernel, we’ve also put configuration files for Linux 4.6 in /testing.

System binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.23. This version of glibc also has excellent compatibility with existing binaries.

Light Table 0.8.1 recently released, is a unique kind of integrated development environment (IDE) – a reactive work surface for the creation and exploration of our programs. It allows you to have a real-time debugging of your code while typing. This means you get a real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation.

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies. Most of the extending packages have free software licenses and are community-built and maintained. Atom is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell), a framework that enables cross-platform desktop applications using Chromium and Node.js. It is written in CoffeeScript and Less. It can also be used as an IDE. Atom was released from beta, as version 1.0, on June 25, 2015. Its developers call it a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century".

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.

Node v6.3.0 (Current) changelog

Added buffer.swap64() to complement swap16() & swap32().

New configure options have been added for building Node.js as a shared library.

Thursday, July 7, 2016

The improvements for this release begin at the title screen, featuring the familiar map of Wesnoth and its surroundings in a new visually-appealing style. Starting a new game be it in single or multiplayer mode reveals a completely refurnished game screen, with a more streamlined and modern design. As part of our commitment to elegance and consistency, every dialog in the game features the new design and many other subtle enhancements.

Battle For Wesnoth 1.12.6 Changelog

Campaigns:

Legend of Wesmere:

Fixed recruit lists for AI sides in MP mode.

Made it so the campaign displays an error and aborts when started with Shuffle Sides enabled in MP mode.

Announced on October 22, 2015, Ubuntu 15.10 was dubbed Wily Werewolf by Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, and this was the first codename based on a fictional character, not a real animal as in all the other cases. Ubuntu 15.10 is not an LTS (Long Term Support) release, which means that it has a short life support cycle for security fixes and software updates.

As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.10 will reach end of life on Thursday, July 28th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 15.10

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Android Studio 2.0 is the fastest way to build high quality, performant apps for the Android platform, including phones and tablets, Android Auto, Android Wear, and Android TV. As the official IDE from Google, Android Studio includes everything you need to build an app, including a code editor, code analysis tools, emulators and more. This new and stable version of Android Studio has fast build speeds and a fast emulator with support for the latest Android version and Google Play Services.

Android Studio is built in coordination with the Android platform and supports all of the latest and greatest APIs. If you are developing for Android, you should be using

Android Studio 2.0 includes the following new features that Android developer can use in their workflow :

Instant Run - For every developer who loves faster build speeds. Make changes and see them appear live in your running app. With many build/run accelerations ranging from VM hot swapping to warm swapping app resources, Instant Run will save you time every day.

Ubuntu’s Dimitri John Ledkov put forth a proposal to wind down 32-bit support on the Ubuntu mailing list recently. Hardware that can’t run 64-bit software is becoming much less common, while creating 32-bit images, testing them, and supporting them takes time and effort. (On Linux, the “i386” architecture is the standard 32-bit for Intel-compatible CPUs, while “amd64” is the 64-bit architecture originally made by AMD that Intel CPUs are compatible with.)

Ledkov points out that Ubuntu wants to limit the number of new 32-bit installations, with Ubuntu 16.10. This next release will not offer a 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop or Ubuntu Server image. The software could still be installed for legacy compatibility purposes via more traditional installers. By Ubuntu 18.10 in October 2018, Ubuntu would completely end support for 32-bit software and encourage running it in a virtual machine or container instead.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

MyPaint is a free and open-source raster graphics editor for digital painters with a focus on painting rather than image manipulation or post processing. MyPaint is available for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux.

MyPaint is a nimble, distraction-free, and easy tool for digital painters. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices. Its brush engine is versatile and configurable, and it provides useful, productive tools.

Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text, video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages. Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Skype is available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, as well as Android, Blackberry, and both Apple and Windows smartphones and tablets.

Monday, July 4, 2016

PlayOnLinux is a piece of software which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and apps designed to run with Microsoft® Windows®.Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings a cost-free, accessible and efficient solution to this problem.

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.10 are now released. Here is the changelog:

Wine 1.8 staging is now the default wine version on OSX. The build process has been improved thanks to wine-staging team so that the compiler supports ms_hook_prologue, allowing function hotpatching. This should improve the compatibility of some applications like Steam.

The new features in TeamViewer 11 follow three significant objectives, to provide the best user experience, support more use cases and be available on more devices. Designed to be more intuitive and easier to use, TeamViewer 11’s improved user interface is a result of feedback from its 200 million strong community and is the latest in user-interface design.

TeamViewer 11 is designed to run on a broad spectrum of operating systems ranging from the state of the art, such as Chrome OS, Windows 10, iOS 9, Android Marshmallow, and Mac OS X El Capitan, to older operating systems such as Windows XP.

New features in TeamViewer 11 for Linux:

Improved performance

TeamViewer has been optimized to use less bandwidth and provide more efficient image rendering, so expect improved image quality at a given bandwidth. Other benefits include file transfers up to 15x faster, and up to 30% lower data usage rates.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

MKVtoolnix is a set of tools to create, alter, split, join and inspect Matroska files(mkv). With these tools one can get information about (mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (mkvextract) Matroska files and create (mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files. Matroska is a multimedia file format aiming to become THE new container format for the future. Use MKVCleaver or gMKVExtractGUI to extract/demultiplex mkv video and audio files.

MKVToolNix 9.2.0 changelog

MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool enhancement: the action "select all attached files" in the popup menu actions for the attached files view has been split up into "enable all attached files" and "disable all attached files"

MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix on Windows: removing the drive letter does not cause the colon to be removed automatically anymore.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

PeaZip is a free and open source graphical archive manager and compression utility available for Linux, BSD, Windows. It support over 180 archive formats including rar, zip, tar and can also encrypt them. It’s a free software replacement for WinRAR with a nice-looking graphical interface.

SuperTuxKart, aka STK, released version 0.9.2 on July 1, 2016. It’s a free, open-source and cross-platform racing game available for Linux, OS X and Windows. It features the mascots of many open source project like Tux, Beastie, Pidgin, Wilber etc, with Mozilla Thunderbird being the referee. You can play with up to 4 friends on one PC, racing against each other, or you can just try beating the computer (a network multiplayer feature is planned).

Hightlights in version 0.9.2

New AI (Artificial Intelligence) support for soccer mode

Added 3 new arenas: “Icy Soccer Field” available for free; “Las Dunas” and “Candela City” available as gift packages for people donating to SuperTuxKart.

Friday, July 1, 2016

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

While the latest version available is Wine 1.8.x, you can also install and test Wine 1.9.13(Dev), which is the under-development branch of Wine and brings the below changes:

Panasonic announced today that Firefox OS will power the new Panasonic DX-series UHD TVs.

Panasonic TVs powered by Firefox OS are already available globally. These TVs have intuitive and customizable home screens which give you “quick access” to Live TV, Apps and personal connected devices. You can access your favorite channels, apps, videos, websites and content quickly – and you can also pin any app or content to your TV home screen.

What’s New in Firefox OS For TVs

Panasonic plans to update the DX-series UHD TVs, first announced in Europe, with a new version of Firefox OS later this year. This update will give you a new way to discover Web Apps and save them to your TV. Firefox OS will feature Web Apps with curated Web content optimized for TV, such as games, news, video on demand, weather and more. You will also get an easy “click to watch” content discovery experience with no installation necessary.